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Talia Kahane
Dec 31, 2000 - Talia Kahane, 31, and her husband Binyamin Zeev Kahane, of Kfar Tapuah were killed when Palestinian snipers opened fire while they were driving home from Jerusalem on the Ramallah bypass road.
They were killed in a shooting attack by terrorists who fired at their vehicle south of the settlement of Ofra. The family of eight had spent the Sabbath in Jerusalem and decided to delay returning to their home in Kfar Tapuah on Saturday night because of the numerous shooting incidents at Israeli vehicles traveling on the roads in Judea and Samaria.
Minutes before the attack the couple had dropped off their 9-year-old son, Meir, at Beit-El where he attended school. Binyamin Kahane was fatally shot and lost control of the car which overturned. His wife, Talia, was critically injured
and died in the ambulance en route to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The couple's five daughters, aged two months to 10 years, were injured, one seriously.
Talia Kahane was a shepherd's daughter who grew up in the Galilee. She assisted her husband, Rabbi Binyamin Kahane, as secretary and manager of the "Kahane Chai" (Kahane Lives) organization, while raising their six children. Their home was the office, from which she sent out books and mail, answered telephones and cooked for the yeshiva, taking on additional responsibilities during her husband's imprisonment.
Binyamin and Talia Kahane were buried in Jerusalem.
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